Seventy-eight years after an American soldier picked it from a dead German soldier in Germany ... School alumni board member ...

Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.

Jeremiah P. Mahoney had been missing in action since 1945. His remains will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery in ...

When the war ended, Allied soldiers tracked down Nicolas de Largillierre's "Portrait de femme à mi-corps" with the help of a ...

A fortune teller read his palm and told him that he had a long lifeline and would survive the war unscathed. On the ...

World War II saw the emergence of some groundbreaking jet fighters that revolutionized aerial warfare. The Messerschmitt Me ...

Here, Josh Levine, author of The Secret History of the Blitz and a consultant on the film, talks to TIME about the hardships ...

What you might not be aware of is that there were a fair few who were captured during the action and held as prisoners of war ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress earned its legendary status as the bomber workhorse against Germany and occupied territories during ...

During WWII, five bombers stood out for their strategic impact: the American B-29 Superfortress, famed for firebombing Tokyo ...

Blitz’ was inspired by an old photograph and a pair of civilian disasters during the German bombing campaign against Great ...

Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” is two different movies. One of them is an “Oliver Twist” tale of a biracial boy making his way back ...